Festivus is the fictional holiday made famous on the Seinfeld show . The point was that it was an airing of grievances . Sen Rand Paul uses the occasion to demonstrate how we get hosed through wasteful spending by Congress of our money.

Here is this year's report .

Festivus 2023 Clean AJS edits 5p.pdf (senate.gov) (https://www.paul.senate.gov/sites/default/files/page-attachments/Festivus%202023%20Clean%20AJS%20edits%205p.pdf)

He details almost a $ half trillion wasted spending. Most of it ; $4.75 trillion was for interest of our over $31 trillion national debt.

But there are other whoopers too.

$168 million to process illegal aliens .

and another $17 million for hotel rooms for illegal aliens that went unused



$66 billion spent on Ukraine with more war bucks on the way .
other foreign policy priorities are

$2.1 million was dedicated to encourage Ethiopians
to wear shoes.

$50,000,000 to boosting the travel sector in Tunisia.

$210,069,000 to “basic education” projects in Jordan.


domestic priorities included

$2.3 million for studying beagle puppies when injected with cocaine.

$689,000 for studying romancing parrots

$3 million for watching hamsters fight on steroids

$519,000 used mice to study racial aggression

$675,000 for studying the social life and collective intelligence of ants.

Covid rip-offs included

4.5 million went to ineligible citizens or fraudsters

$140 million went to Broward County Fla to build a health spa/hotel




I could go on and on but I gave up when I read that the government gave a Georgia professor $118 million to study the feasibility of Marvel Comic's villain Thanos snapping his fingers to eliminate half the universe's population.



Robin Hood, what a crook!
Gave away, what he took.
Charity's fine, subscribe to mine.
Get out and pick-a-pocket or two

('Pick a Pocket or Two' from the Musical 'Oliver')

This was some more of it.


More than $31.5 million worth of COVID funds went to buy luxury cars, and another $1.6 million was used to upgrade turf fields in Wisconsin, where a school took advantage of rules that said a minimum of 20% of the funding had to be used to help students.The really distressing part is that no one seems to care. This kind of news is basically met with a yawn across most of the country, and the reason, as I say repeatedly, is very simple. It's all being paid for with either borrowed or printed money. That does seem to help by kicking the can down the road, but we should note that the can becomes every larger by the year. One day, the can will kick us down the road.